Wow. I just realized exactly how much all fast-food restaurants are the same. They’re all assholes, with stupid managers. They all use the same products, but package them differently. Almost the same equipment. The coolest thing sonic has is a rolling butter machine. A drum turns in a pool of (well, oil I guess) and you slap the bun on it and throw it into the toaster. The second cool thing is how they cook grilled cheese. Throw cheese on grill surface. Wait couple seconds. Add bread.
I’m scheduled 6 hours this whole week. I’m pissed.
that is all.
THat’s about the only decent thing on the menu at Sonic. They’re almost not even worth it though because I feel like an idiot pulling up and asking for a “coney.”
I’m a vegetarian and loathe fast food in general, but I frequently give strong thought to driving very long distances to get a Sonic Cherry Limeade. I try to make them on my own, but I haven’t been able to get the mix just right. That’s one thing that Sonic does very very well.
I totally agree about the “coneys.” I assume they’re stretching for a connotation of “Coney Island,” but seriously, most of their customers have never heard of Coney Island and wouldn’t understand what it had to do with hot dogs anyway. And if I’m wrong about the association they’re trying to make with the word “coney,” then I have no idea what their point could be.
Personally, I hear the word “coney,” I think of rabbits. A lovely brace of coneys for a stew; if only we had taters.
People don’t know the term “coney”/“Coney Island” for chili dogs in other parts of the USA? Odd. I live in the upper midwest and I would probably use the term “coney” sooner than “chili dog”. We don’t even have Sonic stores here, incidentally.
I really enjoy eating at Sonic (especially the jalapeno cheeseburger and a cherry limeade freeze!) but I would rather give myself a root canal with a Black & Decker drill than work there. Given this, I always tip at least a buck, no matter how small the order.
I’ve recently moved to Oregon from Tennessee and get just as many advertisements for the chain here as I did back home. The major difference being that they’re in the Southeast but I’m told they’re not here in the Northwest. It’s rather odd.
I don’t really care though… Sonic’s food is abysmal. The only thing on their menu worth ordering are their drinks. Mm… cherry limeades and ocean waters.
There are several of them in the Boise area that have opened in the past 2-3 years. Maybe they just haven’t reached your area yet.
I’ve only been to Sonic once and I wasn’t too impressed with the service or the food quality. I might have to go back and try one of those cherry lime drinks, though; they sound good.
I used to love Sonic, but we’ve never had one in the city where I lived (Miami or Gainesville, FL), despite them advertising heavily in both cities. Whenever I was travelling, if I saw one, I always had to stop and eat there. I’m worried I got a nasty case of food poisoning from a Sonic back in February, although to be fair, it could have been from a local sub shop–those were the two meals I ate the day I got sick. I’d still try Sonic again, though. Their frosty frozen drinks and desserts are the best part. I love the frozen strawberry lemonade with the chunks of fruit, and the milkshakes with tiny bits of graham cracker pie crust in them!
I like how they prepare their sodas. I’m very picky about my fountain drinks and I love the crushed iced they use. Wendy’s always seems to put in only two or three ice cubes in their fountain drinks (at least the one I used to go to).
That is bizarre…Sonic is also advertised in the Buffalo area. Columbus is even further away from us. I can’t think of any other chains absent from our area that also have ads here (you don’t see any Chick-Fil-A ads, for example), so it’s not just a case of Sonic buying up national ad time because it’s cheaper.
We just got a new Sonic in my town, but I haven’t been there. I meet my need for Cherry Limeade by getting the bottled IBC Cherry Limeade at my local Wally-World. They’re the only ones who carry it locally.
NO NO NO! Not cherry limeade, or even the shakes. Pull up, hit the button and tell them you want an “Orange Cool Breeze.” You won’t regret it. (Mmmm. Sprite with cherry, pineapple and orange flavoring.)
(Although I don’t get to make them… I’m a lowly cook. )
Calling a chili dog-with-onions-and-mustard a “Coney dog” seems to be a Midwestern regionalism. It is certainly NEVER called that in NYC or anywhere in the vicinity of Coney Island.
They recently came out with a low calorie limeade and cherry limeade. They don’t say “diet” presumably because of the the disclaimer that says the actual lime wedged and maraschino cherry have sugar. Damn they’re good and I don’
t get a sugar rush from drinking a route 44 version.
WTF is ocean water anyway? The name leads me to think it’s something you don’t want to drink.
My experience is that Ocean Water is really sweet blue Kool-aid. Not my favorite of their selections.
But, jeebus gawd, a Sonic jalapeno burger with only cheese and mayo… ::faints::
Oo! Oo! And a chocolate chip shake!
I got hooked on Sonic in Austin. When I moved back to Omaha, they did have them (although they DID have Shiner Bock, praise be). Thankfully, about three years later they opened two of them. There were cars lined up for miles. (Well, not miles, but enough to make the paper.)
Could someone please call corporate, and tell them we desperately need on in downtown Chicago???
We see the ads all the time here in DC and the closest one is nearly 3 hours away in Roanoke. Drives me crazy. When we visit family in New Mexico they’re everywhere, and man are the cheeseburgers the perfect hangover food. I loooved my banana cream pie milkshake last time… mmmm Sonic.
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